externality
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Most people think of money as a macro phenomenon or externality.
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026
"In economics, we call that externality," she said.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024
In the language of economics, the decision imposes an externality on the nation, which is exactly the kind of decision that states alone should not be making for other states.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2023
“We create prosperous and exclusive communities, but in so doing also create neighborhoods with concentrated despair — the externality of stockpiled opportunity.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
With touch, there is reproduction of externality, but the ideality of the reproduction is not so complete as in the other forms.
From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)
How do you think about the potential externalities of AI, such as unemployment?
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
But those events tend to be intrinsic to business rather than externalities such as White House maneuvers or geopolitics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
It turns out that the simple obligation of going to a workplace, shop, or school every day brought positive externalities that are vanishing from our lives.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2024
Advocates of true cost accounting assert that its more nuanced approach will address shortcomings in traditional cost-benefit analysis – particularly, failing to consider social and health externalities in depth.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2024
His gifts were of unusual power, but for the externalities of things only, and he possessed just the gifts with which the sophists of old time distinguished themselves.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen
